Chapter 762 Reunion
Caden’s POV:
Now that the situation with Mom and Rosaline had finally settled, I reflected on it and decided to give Dayne a call.
Not for any particular reason–just because we’d been close friends for years.
The phone rang a few times before he picked up.
“Well, well. It’s been a while. What made you think of calling me all of a sudden?” Dayne’s voice came through, just as familiar as ever.
“What, just because you’re famous now, someone like me can’t even make a simple phone call?” I half–joked, half–serious. After all, we’d known each other for years–no matter how distant things had gotten, one sentence was all it took to feel close again.
He paused for a beat, then chuckled. “Of course not. So, where are we eating?”
“Same old place. You know it.” I hung up right after.
The “same old place” was the Dragonfly Bar. When I arrived, the entrance was already buzzing with groups of werewolves hanging out in clusters.
I parked and was about to call Dayne when he texted me the private room number. He’d gotten there first.
I walked into the bar and headed straight to the room.
I sat down beside him and casually threw my arm over his shoulder. “You came back home and didn’t even tell us?”
Before he left, we saw each other constantly. But after he went abroad, he barely kept in touch.
And now that he was back, he’d been keeping his distance–distant, cold, unreadable.
Dayne raised an eyebrow. “I just got back. Still got a lot to deal with.”
As he spoke, he poured me a glass of wine.
I clinked my glass with his and took a sip. “So, how have you been?”
“Same old, same old,” he said lazily, taking a sip.
We drank, caught up a bit, and talked about life. Then, suddenly, the door swung open.
A floor manager walked in, leading a group of werewolf girls dressed in flashy, revealing outfits.
I frowned and looked at Dayne. “What’s this about?”
I knew full well–there’s no way the manager would bring these girls in without someone’s orders.
“Come on, don’t be mad.” Dayne patted my shoulder, putting on his best understanding face. You sound stressed lately. Since we’re at a bar, why not relax a little?”
I brushed his hand off and said seriously, “Even if I want to relax, this isn’t how I’d do it.”
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He rolled his eyes and scoffed, “So fake.”
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He motioned to the manager, who quickly flashed a polite smile and began introducing the six werewolf girls.
That was when it hit me–Dayne hadn’t asked to meet just to catch up.
He smiled and looked toward the girls. After they all finished saying their names, he turned back to me.
I didn’t react. I just sat there, cold and motionless.
Dayne’s smile faded a bit. “Don’t tell me you’re staying celibate for Rosaline.”
Before I could say anything, he added with a tone like he was imparting wisdom, “Come on, mar around–it’s normal.”
I clenched my fists. His casual and dismissive way of talking made my stomach turn.
ys fool
I hadn’t come here to argue. I came to reconnect. And this? This wasn’t it.
My face went cold. I stood up. “Since you’ve got your own kind of fun planned, I won’t get in the way.”
I headed for the door but stopped when I reached it. I turned back to look at him, “I always thought, no matter what, you were someone I could trust. But it’s been so long… I guess I don’t know you anymore.”
With that, I walked out of the bar.
Outside the Dragonfly Bar, I called for a driver.
Sitting in the car, I kept going over everything that had just happened. The whole thing felt off.
Normally, as the rightful heir of the Stormbrew Pack and someone who grew up with me, Dayne shouldn’t be treating me with such disrespect. It made me question his motives tonight.
What could he possibly gain from making me dislike him?
I didn’t believe someone like Dayne–a future leader of his pack–would act purely on emotion.
When I got home, I went straight to the shower.
I’d only been at the bar for half an hour, but the stink of booze and smoke clung to me.
I couldn’t stand it.
As I sat on the bed watching a movie,
As I sat on the bed watching a movie, my mind kept circling back to Dayne’s strange behavior. In the end, I decided I’d have someone look into his recent movements the next day.
Maybe something had happened that made him act this way toward me.
The next morning, I went to work and called Beta Yale into the office. I told him to look into Dayne’s recent whereabouts.
He agreed, and I buried myself in work until the end of the day. That’s when he finally got back to me,
His report stunned me. He told me that Dayne might be secretly in contact with Melvin.
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I froze. Melvin? How could he be involved with him?
“Should I keep watching him?” Yale asked carefully when he noticed my silence.
“Yeah. Keep watching.”
At first, I just wanted Yale to quietly look into Dayne and pull back before he noticed.
But I didn’t expect the person he might be secretly in contact with
…
was Melvin.
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Melvin was a dangerous man–he played both sides, and his reputation across the werewolf packs was terrible.
With him involved, there was no way I could sit back and ignore it.
The fact that Dayne might be connected to Melvin really caught me off guard.
It made me wonder, could our fallout have something to do with Melvin?
I called Rosaline and told her everything.
She was surprised, but not completely shocked. She told me to stay calm and keep watching.
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